Myanmar junta announces schedule for December, January election
Read RFA coverage of this topic in Burmese. Myanmar junta has announced that the election it plans to hold in December and January would be...
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Junta chief vows to hike defense budget, seeking to expand global presence
Read RFA coverage of this topic in Burmese. Myanmar’s junta chief said the military would increase the defense budget, while seeking to expand his international...
Anti-coup medical workers under attack while tackling Myanmar’s health care gap
Thiha Tin Htun, a 26-year-old doctor, is one of the 135 medical professionals that Myanmar’s junta authorities have killed since their military coup d’etat four...
Myanmar junta admits misconduct in its controversial conscription scheme
Read RFA coverage of this story in Burmese. Myanmar junta’s top official said there had been misconduct in its conscription scheme – the military’s first...
Junta offensives leave 4 dead, thousands displaced in northwest Myanmar
Read RFA coverage of these topics in Burmese. Junta attacks on Thursday claimed four lives in northwest Myanmar, where tens of thousands displaced residents remain...
Myanmar’s junta drops ‘more than 500’ bombs on Chin state town during week of clashes
Read RFA coverage of this topic in Burmese. An intense battle is underway in western Myanmar as junta troops attempt to re-take Falam, the second-biggest...
Video: Burmese refugees come together for violin lessons in Thai border town
MAE SOT, Thailand — Phoe San was one of thousands of Burmese migrants who fled to the Thai border town of Mae Sot after Myanmar’s...
Villagers flee as fighting rocks Myanmar’s delta
Read RFA coverage of these topics in Burmese. War is encroaching into Myanmar’s rice-basket Ayeyarwady River delta, residents said on Tuesday, as fighters from the...
Junta troops forcibly recruit more than 70 young men in Myanmar town
Read RFA coverage of this topic in Burmese. Authorities in Myanmar forcibly recruited more than 70 young men from a single town in the south-central...
Myanmar children, monks among dozens killed in heavy airstrikes
Read RFA coverage of this topic in Burmese. Myanmar’s military killed 40 civilians, including Buddhist monks and children, in airstrikes in northern Myanmar as it...
